Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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He received a Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in Animal Biology and Psychology, from Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1996. the fault is with Big Pharma, Big Sugar, Big Dairy, Big Government, Lobbyists and the diet industry. My takeaway from this at a high level is not so much that doctors are going around purposefully lying to their patients, but that medical science is extremely difficult to conduct in an ethical and comprehensive manner, and is also subject to outside monetary influences.

This author loves pre-warning me of what this book entails and that I should befriend my doctor, but not really telling me any useful information. I suppose for the sake of brevity he had to keep it simple, but some of his points did not feel well backed up or proven with evidence. To me, that's a bit of a lie as well, since even though thing x might be true, it won't change your way of behaving if thing y is also true, but he never goes over that aspect of it in the book. Early on he says how he has nuts every day but later when talking about fibre he tells us he hasn't had any in weeks! The vast majority of ailments truly can be managed or cured with the right healthy diet and herbal supplements.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Which would not be so bad, if her doctor were doing additional testing to determine the cause of her symptoms. At the high level, I agree with the overall message the author is looking to convey here, namely that just because someone is a credentialed MD, doesn't mean that they necessarily are the be all and end all authority of all things, and that at the end of the day, since you're the one that has to live in your body, ultimately the buck stops with you when it comes to being responsible for your health, and being willing to challenge thinking that may be out of date. Nutritional therapy is often overlooked in medical school, and the information provided to physicians is often outdated.

One more study from Harvard which shows that a study which followed over 120k men and women for 20 years found that yogurt consumption appeared to protect from weight gain due to the colonic bacterial from the yogurt. The last chapter, written to medics of all levels of experience from those still in school on up to the pending retiree, is a very direct and eye-opening little glimpse into the profession. Throw in some villains like the inept Big Government, greedy Big Pharma, evil Big Food, and irresponsible Big You Fill in the Blank. In providing support for his claim the author repeatedly uses "whole wheat" interchangeably with "whole grains," which is confusing and somewhat conflates the argument.Doctors need to be able to put the pieces together and not simply depend on lab tests and normal ranges to make a diagnosis. This was a super one-sided presentation of the argument that made it sound like these standards are completely useless, which is ironic in a book accusing others of lying. Berry is an advocate for Keto and Paleo diets as well as investigating the new short term fasting trend. His logic and his arguments are often as flawed if not more flawed than the ones he's supposedly debunking. Unfortunately, I think this particular doctor has parked his car in the keto garage and in doing so has stymied his own intellectual growth when it comes to matters of nutrition as it relates to health.

Still, for anyone skeptical of advice they may have been given by a doctor, or for anyone that's been blamed by their doctor for their own problems (i. For example, the author starts by talking about how common sense is right more often than we might think it is, but then when an example in the book comes up where the common sense disagrees with his point of view, he's quick to discard that notion, only to bring it back again in the very next chapter now that it suits his purposes again. I recommend this book, and his videos if you want to start learning that doctors are human and can make mistakes and that at least some of the responsibility should be on you. As a fair skinned redhead, you're never going to convince me that I should get out in the sun and start roasting myself when ten minutes in my skin starts to burn. Given that medical school teaches so little about proper nutrition he embarked on his own journey for optimizing health.That said, my experience is despite all their failings, the original guidelines really weren't all that bad. He attacks the food pyramid, claiming that if anyone/anything is responsible for the obesity epidemic it is the USDA and their dietary guidelines.